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I feel so much better knowing British bureaucrats are now taking over the responsibility of feeding English children from their overworked, under-educated, insensitive, lazy parents. Before too long, Her Majesty's Government will complete the task, limiting parents' responsibility to breeding and taxpaying...after applying for a license, of course.

Cheez-it crackers, pretzels and nachos got me through law school and patent drafting for doctorate physicists from China. The food police, on the other hand, can't understand the difference between cis-fatty acids and trans-fatty acids (although they're sure the latter must be banned). Feed the kids more Cheez-its, I say!

What happens to the kids who play sports? Clearly they have a much much higher daily calorie requirement than the obese kids. When I was a teenager, I regularly consumed 4000 to 5000 calories a day because I worked out so much. I'm sure some share of the was soda, potato chips, french fries. And I recall regularly ordering a large pizza from dominoes with bacon and pineapple (much better than it sounds) and ate the whole thing.

When I went off to college, the edible dorm food skewed well away from healthy. I found it was much easier to take a multivitamin than to get a healthy diet of dorm food that was also edible.

It would be interesting to see whether the food actually consumed by students is any healthier under the new regime than previously, and how it compares to the ideal menus that existed at the planning stage.

When I was at Scout camp, the way to "Be Prepared" when they served us S.O.S. was to snatch a few slices of white bread (the only kind we got), smear them with butter, then dump as much white sugar onto the buttered side as you could.

Fold in half. Eat.

And wash it all down with bug juice -- i.e., Kool-Aid (minus, of course, the Jim Jones additives).

It wasn't a great lunch, and we knew it. But it got you through an afternoon's activities.

Just because people evade the rules doesn't mean they failed, if they set norms to let people know what "good" eating really is. Like some people proudly don't wear their seatbelt, but at least they know they're supposed to wear their seatbelt, and maybe they teach their kids that way.

Just because people evade the rules doesn't mean they failed, if they set norms to let people know what "good" eating really is. Like some people proudly don't wear their seatbelt, but at least they know they're supposed to wear their seatbelt, and maybe they teach their kids that way.

Here in suburban Dallas, several wealthier districts are turning down some of their federal funding in favor of still serving foods that students like to eat. In most cases, the districts are making more in income than they are sacrificing by giving up the government funds. I approve.